Academy Quote by Blixa Bargeld

I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.

— Anne Waldman

I've written on public matters, but I don't understand how anyone could tout me as a possible poet laureate when I wrote a poem…

— Tony Harrison

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I…

— Rita Dove

As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their…

— Alexander Borodin

After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann,…

— Paul Heyse

People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

— Rita Dove

In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The…

— Frederick Lenz

Art is a luxury. It's not necessary for you to - you can work your job and you can make some money and never…

— Wynton Marsalis

I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.

— David Means

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for this other…

— Robert Hass